on 1/30/06 9:30 AM, peterklutz at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Here's the text from the article (found att archive search 'Maharishi' > at http://www.illustre.ch):
And here's a rough translation of it from Babelfish: In English: Here' S the text from the article (found att files search ' Maharishi' At http://www.illustre.ch): © the Magazine; 21.12.2005; number 51; page 36 the report "Switzerland is indicated to be the paradise on Earth" the insane Utopia of the rajah Felix Kaegi Couronnés of gold, they move in Cadillac of de luxe hotel in de luxe hotel with an aim proclaimed to make of Switzerland a haven of peace. Which direction to give to the disconcerting operation launched to Geneva by the emissary of Maharishi, the father of the meditation transcendantale? Inquire. Text: Francoise Boulianne Photographs: Claude Gluntz When the wise watch the moon, the insane one looks at the finger, known as the proverb. Perfect. But which is the wise one and which is the insane one, in this business? The militants of May 68 wanted to shave the Alps to see the sea thirty-seven years later, the emissary of Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, formerly guru of Beatles, want to shave Geneva to see peace, happiness, prosperity. Is it necessary to laugh their crowns, their limousines and de luxe hotels which they affectionnent? Or then is it necessary to pay attention to their provocative message, altogether enticing in this period of capital crisis, the more so as it is carried by million faithful followers of the meditation transcendantale (MT), to start with David Lynch or Clint Eastwood? In the doubt, we encased the step with these funny rajahs with the pink cheeks from Zurich, from London and New York to preach the fine words in French-speaking Switzerland. Act I, December 14, to Lausanne Palace Go with Felix Kaegi, rajah de Suisse. First surprised: its majesty has humour. Questioned on its crown, which it raises with the timidity of a champion of decathlon slipping for the first time into an evening dress, it admits readily that it is not very comfortable and that it removes it to sleep. This man with the surprising destiny explains that it was born in Saint-Gall in 1954, the year when Francoise Sagan published Hello sadness and Boris Vian sang the deserter. Wire of a photographer, who established later his shop with Stäfa, on banks of Lake Zurich, it had its first flash at 14 years, by dividing into sheets the Salut magazine buddies. "Beatles posed with their Indian guru, says it. In search of values which I did not find in my village, I punaisé the photograph on the wall of my room. Maharishi Mahesh Yogi became the symbol of what I sought." Of wire out of needle, Felix comes into contact with the founder of the MT. Its training of finished chemist, it throws to the nettles its diploma and the skimped aspirations of its medium to go to follow the teaching of its Master. Thirty years later, here the rajah de Suisse, coldly formed with its role of king - in Holland, where Maharishi saw -, in company of 21 other rajahs of various areas of the world. It is flanked of one charming wife, Mona, named mother of the field of the rajah de Suisse. Rich person girl followers of the MT, initially formed as designer, it became professor of meditation and naturopathe in Zurich. Proud of his successes, her husband specifies that in six years, it initiated more than 1000 new practise. As cordial as concerned to make well, both explain their project lengthily, which lights full of small stars in their ingenuous eyes. "Reconstruire Geneva in respect with the natural laws will bring to this city peace, happiness and prosperity, which will make it possible to show the way in the world", says in short. "We must do everything to prevent a forthcoming war, specifies Felix Kaegi, which contemplates eight hours per day to stimulate the forces necessary to its mission. Thanks to its traditions of peace and freedom, Switzerland is naturally indicated to become the paradise on Earth. What it misses, it is to include/understand the benefits of the meditation, which dissolves in particular the fears and the conflicts, as well as the principles of vedic science, mother of all knowledge." Is this in the name of these principles which it was established in Lausanne Palace and drives limousine? "Note that I have neither yacht nor private aircraft to show you, it still smiles. The money is not dirty in oneself, the capacity and comfort either. What counts, it is how it is obtained and what one does. A king must assume a parental role, and make sure that nobody suffers in his kingdom. For that, it is necessary money in its treasury for him." Act II, December 15, hotel President Wilson, Geneva the rajahs sumptuously launched their conference "Reconstruire Geneva creative downtown of a happy destiny" by means of full pages of advertisements published in the local press. But they allured only one score of curious, which await them in the Neptune living room of the de luxe hotel where they unload, without three-pronged forks but crowns with the face. Luxurious documentation, simultaneous translation - all the speakers express themselves in English, some by interposed screen -, orange juice and small furnaces. Large furnace too. At the end of one hour and half of soporific speeches aiming at establishing that Western scientific research and Eastern vedic knowledge are combined to show that Geneva must be shaven, and will be it, the majority of the assistance east flees. Imperturbable, the caméraman of the movement fixes the rajahs and their wives without never being turned over on the deserted room. The images are retransmitted in the whole world, says us one, thanks to the networks remote transmission of Maharishi Mahesh Yogi. Which is the share of wisdom, mystification and marketing in this operation? The conscientiousness of a journalist not being definitely to the height of the universal conscience preached here, we raise the camp without very hoping for answer. Act III, December 15, with leaving the conference is to count without the two Genevese professors of meditation transcendantale who, in the corridors of the de luxe hotel, locate with the quarter of turn our perplexity. Questions? Yes. A coffee cup? Yes. "the rajahs, this conference, all these developments new also surprise us, to the point acknowledge Leonard Stein and Sophie Tochon, which are however thirty years old of practice behind them. One could almost speak about a blow of bludgeon." Trustful however, they remember. "In 1975 already, whereas a million Americans had been initiated in the MT, Maharishi had chosen to further go and to give on the agenda the ancestral techniques of yoguic levitation, or flight, which had disturbed not badly world." 88 years old, does the Indian Master feel his end to come and tries it to consolidate his empire thus? "Perhaps, they admit. But isn't the role of a Master to shock the spirits to leave them their torpor? Wise as cannot quite simply be to him on the same level that us, without what it would not have anything to teach us." Is the idea to shave Geneva, and after it Zurich, Basle, Paris or New York, a strategy to draw the attention? "to initiate the changes necessary in the life of the cities, of which each one can note that they do not allow the blooming of their inhabitants, it is necessary well to indicate the objectives, explains Leonard Stein. Thus this project should be included/understood. Moreover, which architect did not dream of more radiant cities, Corbusier at the head?" Is the MT becoming a sect and the money its engine? "Of tens of thousands of people practise the meditation transcendantale in all intimacy, without never attending one of our meetings, objects Sophie Tochon. This technique is right a catch to connect twice twenty minutes per day on cosmos. It aims making the practise autonomous, and not dependent, at coming into contact with the true values of the life. No contribution is perceived and the introductory course, which currently costs 2900 franks, ensures a follow-up life with all those which wish it." Concerned to better perceive waitings of the citizens of his kingdom, the rajah Felix Kaegi asked us by e-mail our conclusions as for the conference of which he was the host, last Thursday, in Geneva. That honours it. Here, respectfully, in the form of proverb still: who will live will see. F B Imposing and disputed Projets Switzerland seen by Maharishi the initiators of the meditation transcendantale have ambitions for the cities, to start with Geneva, and for the countryside, like here in the Jura. Rediscovered by the researchers of Maharishi, the principles of vedic architecture require East-West directed houses and a great attention paid to the topography of the built places, river, relief, axes of communication. That only, in their eyes, will allow the cities as Geneva to turn the back on all noxious environments which weigh on their citizens. Aiming at a better quality of life, the experts of the movement were also interested in the "natural laws", to promote biological agriculture, the teaching of the meditation to the schoolboys and a framework of life allowing to observe this perfect source of inspiration which is nature. Already with the head of immense headquarters with Seelisberg, close to the plain of Grütli, and of a score of centers in Switzerland, they have the project to install, on 15 hectares of ground with Vendlincourt (JU), a great complex of re-arrangement. Oppositions are done day, but the Jurassic minister Jean-François Roth rather therefore seems: in the name of what to be sulky 25 million investments and about fifteen employment? Illuminated by their mission triumphal Departure for the conference on the rebuilding of Geneva. The rajah Felix Kaegi, of Switzerland, and his wife, Mona, precede, on the staircases of Lausanne Palace, the rajah Paul Potter, of New York, and his wife, Susie. Cadillac is advanced For more comfort, rajah Felix, his counterparts of New York and of England and their wives move in their limousine six doors registered in the canton of Uri. The most favourable door the three rajahs chose to enter by the east to the hotel President Wilson, according to precepts' vedic which they will present at the time of their conference on the rebuilding of Geneva. Sparse assistance In spite of advertising beating, only some curious moved to hear the rajahs and the experts of vedic sciences. But, thanks to the channels of diffusion of Maharishi, their remarks will find echo in the whole world. The support of the stars Father of the meditation transcendantale, Maharishi has Pharaonic projects. The scenario writer David Lynch currently tries to collect 7 billion dollars to build Palates of peace. While choosing Maharishi like guru, Beatles - here with Mia Farrow and Donovan -, launched a fashion followed by million Westerners and some stars in the world. Celine Dion. David Lynch. Stevie Wonder. Clint Eastwood. Linked in spirituality Rajah Felix and his wife, Mona, here in a living room of Lausanne De luxe hotel, the meditation and the vegetarianism practise since long years, to cultivate a high level of conscience. The new plan of Geneva. The ground aimed at Vendlincourt...... to create a center dedicated to the meditation and the re-arrangement. Y ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Join modern day disciples reach the disfigured and poor with hope and healing http://us.click.yahoo.com/lMct6A/Vp3LAA/i1hLAA/UlWolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! 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